Multi-core processors and increased demand for maximum performance and scalability in mission-critical applications has renewed interest in functional languages like Erlang are designed to deal with concurrent programming. Erlang and OTP platform, enabling it to provide a more robust applications that satisfy stringent uptime and performance requirements. Erlang and OTP in Action teaches you to apply Erlang's message passing model for programming the same time - a totally different way of overcoming the problem of parallel programming multi-threaded approach is more general. Unlike other books on the market, Erlang and OTP in Action offers a comprehensive view of how the concurrency associated with SOA and web technologies. This hands-on guide is perfect for readers just learning Erlang or for those who want to apply their theoretical knowledge of the language is strong.